Police Strike Action over Pay Situation

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Surprised there wasnt a thread about this debacle already.

Basically in a nutshell the situation is this:

The arbritration panel has come back and said 2.5% wage rise backdated to September.

Police grudgingly accept. But Jacqui Smith (home sec) decides to only backdate it to December (effectively making it a 1.9% increase only)

My questions are these:

Wtf is she doing? Considering its only 30 million out of the budget she is willing to go to war with the police on this blimey.

Should the police be treated exactly the same as other public sector workers? (nurses, teachers, firemen etc) Considering all of them have the right to stage industrial action (in form of Strikes) yet the police do not. (though i can see why the police arent allowed ie chaos on the streets so its about maintaining public order etc)

What percentage wage-rise did M.P.s get recently? :)
 
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mehuk said:
if they strike, we are screwed

riots, fires, tornados, locusts, ships falling off the edge of the world :(
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they are not allowed to strike. i wonder if they do strike who would arrest them for illegally striking....

maybe the army but then they are all in the middle east!
 
Ridiculous the way the government shafted the police like that. That said I hope the Police don't strike. I dread to think how the brainless majority of this country would act if there were no police on the street.
 
scorza said:
Ridiculous the way the government shafted the police like that. That said I hope the Police don't strike. I dread to think how the brainless majority of this country would act if there were no police on the street.
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There'll likely be replacement MPs (military police).
 
I think every mp should just be stopped regularly when ever they are seen by a traffic police man, in random drug/bethalizer tests. Searched when ever they are about to board a plane (for several long painful humiliating hours). I think they'll get their raise quite quickly then. :D
 
Theres a ban on the polic ein the UK striking, understandably, but the fire arms unit can refuse to carry guns and the whole of the force can refuse to do overtime which puts us all in jeopardy.
 
I say a complete overhaul of the whole policeing systwm in this country is in order. In my area a whole bunch of people went round commiting every offence imaginable They robbed houses, cars and even had a couple of martial artists have a huge fight in the middle of a town they allowed themselves to be caught and only one of them got arrested and his crime was going up to a mounted police officer and asking "By any Chance is your horse gay?" this officer then proceeded to call 2 units in to arrest this one bloke.
 
Out of order for the government to shaft the police like this. I hope that they strike, so that these tools in power can really see just how important the bobbies are. They have such a hard job nowadays, and they deserve a step up from the ancient pay schemes that were set up from a bygone era.
 
Power has gone to head for them, they are getting stricter in order to get more votes, which wont work, because everything they do nowadays comes under scrouteny.

Gordons a muppet, and the labour party and push the wrong people around, the police are probably the most important people in the country, why do this to them, why pay judges over 200k a year when they can pay police this little bit more.

Priorities..
 
I wonder what would happen if there was no police?

Do you think everyone would immediatly go and steal lots of things, break windows etc etc? Just because the police stop doesnt mean CCTV does
 
geeza said:
I wonder what would happen if there was no police?

Do you think everyone would immediatly go and steal lots of things, break windows etc etc? Just because the police stop doesnt mean CCTV does
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Means nones watching though. or putting fresh tapes in.
 
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